Section r %~ % . w - folL ASSOCIATION I .. OTBA OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE VICTORIAN AMATEUR FO Best in any competition for ~r VALUE * SERVICE * RELIABILITY CLIVE FAIRBAIRN'S SPORTS S T O R E 384 POST OFFICE PLACE, MELBOURNE .. 67-3740 FORTHCOMING MATCHES AT ELSTERNWICK PAR K April 28 - MONASH BLUES v . IVANHOE May 5- NORTH OLD BOYS v. GEELON G May 12 - UNIVERSITY BLACKS v RESERVOIR OLD BOY S Call your Travel Agent, Tourist Bureau or .. ANS= AtRL1iN~ I~A6 .as'!r i UUL,tA A ®rra mm Page 2 THE AMATEUR FOOTBALLER -April 28, 1973 EELONG, NORTH OLD BOYS, HEAD LIST ONLY UNBEATEN, TEAMS AFTER TWO ROUNDS By GEORGE McTAGGART. Geelong and North Old Boys are the only unbeaten teams after the second round of matches played a fortnight ago . North sneaked home by two points after a close struggle with Caulfield Grammarians, but Geelong scored a comfortable and impressive win over Old Paradians, who were runners-up last season . St. Bernard's finished too strongly for Ivanhoe and won the high-scoring game by 15 points, and University Blues lasted better than Monash Blues to be winners by 11 points . Reservoir Old Boys scored another resounding win, this time over As- sumption (who were runners-up to them in C Section last season) and gave the suggestion that they may be heading for A Section . J North Old Boys hopped out with 7 Parade made a determined bid to goals in the first quarter, but Caulfield gain control of the game in the third had faced a similar leeway in the term but Geelong stayed with them first round, and recovered well to lead and were in a strong position when by a point at the interval . they trailed by only 3 points at three- quarter-time . Geelong went for the Caulfield's aerial ability had served kill in the last quarter and although them well but in the second half their Parade made a couple of belated ral- forwards let them down, for they kick- lies, Geelong ran out winners by 4 ed only 2 goals from 1 1 scoring shots . goals. In fact, only five goals were scored altogether after the interval . Coburg and Ormond were level at the interval, but Ormond's better Geelong opened well by kicking 5 teamwork enabled them to race away goals against the wind, to leave Parade with an 8-goal burst in the third struggling from the outset. They were quarter, and although Coburg rallied 8 points behind Geelong at quarter- in the last, Ormond held them out and time, and went further into arrears won by 28 points . although Geelong fell into the trap of attacking from the wrong flank and Monash Blues added 5 goals in the missed several chances . second quarter of a scrambly game to lead University Blues by 1 7 points at Geelong let their opponents off the half-time, but the Melbourne boys hook as they relaxed a little shortly kicked 6 goals in the third term and before half-time, and Parade took full held on to win by 11 points . advantage to score a couple of badly- needed goals, finishing the quarter A great second quarter by Ivanhoe only 17 points down. in which they added 9 .3 to St Bern- THE AMATEUR FOOTBALLER-April 28, 1973 Page 3 ard's 2 .6, gave them a lead of 16 markably well (13 .2) for such a windy points at the interval . Each team kick- day. By contrast, Old Mentoniam ed 5 goals in the third quarter but kicked 12 .30, but it was enough tc St. Bernard's ruck strength gave them give them a big win over Thornbury a burst of 6 goals in the last term and they scored an exciting win . There were some huge scores ir. Junior Section games . University Reservoir crushed Assumption to Blues kicked 35 .24 (234 points) against retain top place on the B Section lad- Hampton Scouts, Ormond's score der, and Collegians won by 7 goals against Ivanhoe was 43 .19 (277 points ; from Kew. Old Scotch were too strong and Coburg kicked 31 .25 (211 points; for Old Carey and ran out winners against Caulfield Grammar . by more than 5 goals . Power House scraped home by a Shocking kicking by University point from Old Scotch and North Old Blacks (12 .25) might easily have cost Boys beat Monash University by 2 them the game against Old Trinity, points . University Blacks trounced who kicked 20 .12 to win by 35 points . last year's premiers, St . Bernard's, by Melbourne High opened their ac- 14 goals . Old Paradians beat Beverley count with a 23-point win at the ex- Hills by 16 points and AJAX beat pense of De La Salle . West Brunswick by 3 goals . Power House scored an excitinQ 1- Among the Reserves, Ormond beat goal win over Old Brighton and Fair- Coburg by 2 goals, North Old Boys field beat Old Haileybury by 8 points . beat Caulfield Grammar by 15 points, Old Melburnians thrashed Old Xaver- Kew beat Collegians by 3 points, De ians, St. Kilda CBC easily beat Uni La Salle beat Melbourne High by 11 High and Parkside were too strong points and Scotch beat Carey by 16 for National Bank . Blacks finished 13 points in front of State Savings Bank scored a big win Trinity, St . Kilda CBC beat UHS by 2 over Commonwealth Bank, St. Pat's goals and Power House beat Old did the same to Brunswick, and Brighton by 10 points. St . Kevin's Hampton Rovers were no match for beat LaTrobe Blacks by 15 points, Marcellin . Alphington and LaTrobe Elsternwick went down to ANZ Bank Blacks opened their accounts with by 3 points and Old Mentonians beat wins over Old Geelong and St . Kevin's Thornbury by 14 points . respectively, by substantial margins in each case . Old Ivanhoe proved too good for Old Camberwell, who were unbeaten in F Section last year . The margin was 28 points . A contrast in kicking played a big part in Elsternwick's 28-point CARNIVAL MATCHES win over ANZ Bank, who kicked 13 .20 to Elsternwick's 19 .12 . AJAX also To be played on the Melbourne Cricket kicked poorly but had 26 points to . Ground . spare against Footscray Tech, while AMP Society swamped West Bruns- TUESDAY, 10th JULY, at 11 .15 a.m. wick. and 1 .45 p.m. THURSDAY, 12th JULY, at 11 .15 a .m . St. Bede's kicked a big score (18 .16) and 1 .45 p .m . but it was 31 points short of Fawkner's 23.17. Monash Whites won easily SATURDAY, 14th JULY, at 11 .30 a .m . from University Reds who kicked re- and 2 .00 p .m . Page 4 THE AMATEUR FOOTBALLER-April 28, 1973 LAST WEEK'S RESULTS A SECTION B SECTION University Blues 1 .7 3.9 9.12 10 .17- 77 B SECTIO N Monash Blues 1 .5 6 .10 7.15 8 .18- 66 MHS Old Boys 2 .2 7 .7 9 .9 15 .12-102 University Blues: Renowden 2, Church 2 , De La Salle OC 1 .7 3 .7 5 .11 11 .13- 79 Vivian 2, Forge 2, Heinz, Ross . Best: Church, MHS Old Boys : R . Harley 5, D . Harley 2 , White, Vivian, Girdwood, Trumble, Renow- R . Cottier 2, Burns, Silberberg, Haylock, den . Cooper, Portion, Taylor. Best: Staley, Wood, Ponton, Todd,: Monash Blues R . Cottier, Taylor . : Staunton 2, Hildebrand 2, De La Salle : Brown 3, Day 2, R . Halasa 2, Nilbert, Flett, Hopkins, Galbraith . Best : Murnane 2, Dunne, McDonald Amor, Marshall, Nilbett, Smith, Staunton, . Best : Day, De Young . Bourke, Murnane, Dorizzi Loft, Lyons . Old Scotch coil 1 .6 5 .10 6 .13 13.17- 95 St Bernards OC 6 .7 8.13 13 .17 19 .23-137 Old Carey Gram 0.2 2 .7 5.9 8 .13- 6 1 Ivanhoe 3 .2 12.6 17 .11 18 .14-122 Old Scotch : Sloan 3, Marks 2, Clarke 2, Evans 2, Rogerson, Nicholls, Tallent, Ander- St Bernard's O .C . : Phelan 4, Bergin 4, son . Best: Kefford, Sloan, Duffy, Symington, Blake 3, Fox 2, Drennan 2, G Rogerson, Tallent Angel, M . Mahoney 2, . Mahoney . Best : M . Mahoney, Old Carey : Freeman 2, Glenn 2, Clarke, Drennan, Amott, Aughton, Bergin, Rackham . Goode, Hughes, Dick . Best: Dick, Ustick, Ivanhoe: Crompton 6, Quinlivan 3, Hick 2, Glenn, Freeman, Birrell, R . Elliott) . Ireland 2, Hughes 2, Dickson, Don, Dean Best . Collegians 5 .3 8 .7 13 .15 18 .18-126 : Callinan, Crompton, Rojo, Ireland, Kew 0 McWhinnie, Baker. .4 5 .11 6 .13 12 .20- 92 Collegians : Munn 6, Woods 2, Moodie 2 , Ormond 4 Hibbert 2, Ross 2, Edwards 2, Pryor, Rice . .5 5 .7 13 .13 14 .18-102 Best : Pryor, Woods, Bouchier, Zent, Ross, Coburg 0 .1 5 .7 5 .12 10 .14- 74 Munn . Kew Ormond : Pearce 6, R . Cameron 3, I . Came- : Nihill 3, Mitchell 3, Hayes 2, Bar- ron, Kozlowski, Logan, R clay, L. McEwan, Smith, McKillop . Best : Best . Wood, Graham . Smith, Lister, Aitken, R . McEwan, Fletcher, : Pearce, R . Wood, Logan, R . Cameron,* Hayes 1 . Cameron, Jenkins . Coburg: Cleary 3, Willoughby 2, Gardiner Reservoir OB 3 .0 8 .7 15 .12 21 .19-145 2, Gillingham, N . Beattie, Emselle . Best: Assumption OC 2.4 4 .4 8.6 9 .6 - 60 Cleary, Leckie, Clark, Ellis, Saunders, Reservoir : McCrohan 8, Massey 3, Galea 2 , Zanon. Byrnes 2, Aires, Bates, D . Scott, Archer, Grose, Travascus . Best: McCrohan, Bates, North Old Boys 7.5 7.7 9 Martin, D . Scott, Gales, McGaw. .11 10.13- 73 Assumption O Caulfield Gram 0.1 7 .8 7.10 9 .17- 7 1 .C .